Orta
# Orta

Orta may refer to:

## Places

* Orta, Møre og Romsdal, an island in Aukra, Norway
* Orta, Çankırı, a district of Çankırı Province, Turkey
* Orta, a town near Rome which, in medieval contexts, may also be called Orte
* Lake Orta, in north Italy
* Orta di Atella, comune in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania
* Orta Nova, town and comune from Foggia, in the region of Apulia, in southern Italy
* Orta San Giulio, a town on Lake Orta
* Orta, Tavas, populates place in Denizli Province, Turkey

## People

* Garcia de Orta (1501 – 1568) Portuguese physician, herbalist and naturalist
* Jorge Orta (born 1950), Mexican Major League Baseball player
* Lucy Orta, a British contemporary artist
* Ramsey Orta, a friend of Eric Garner's who recorded on his cell phone the police murdering Garner

## Other uses

* Orta (Janissary), a military rank of Janissaries
* Orta, a fictional Italian village in the film Captain Carey, U.S.A.
* Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA), an organizational structure established in federal laboratories though the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-480)-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-480)
* Panzer Dragoon Orta, the describer and heroine of the fourth game in the Panzer Dragoon series
